Outside the Baitu Pass, the camp of the Northern Army

Ma Qiang stretched his waist and walked out of the big tent, he didn't sleep all day and night, but he could be regarded as making up for a good night.

As soon as he woke up, he learned that Zhao Yun and Tai Shici were waiting to be received by him, and that Zhao Yun had also routed the Hun cavalry and captured its commander Hu Chuquan.

"I've seen Ming Gong!"

Zhao Yun and Tai Shici came to Ma Qiang together, and behind Zhao Yun, there were several Huns who were tied up by five flowers.

Yuan Shao's rapid rout made the Hun cavalry sent to contain Zhao Yun unlucky, and they didn't know what was going on, but when they woke up, they were surprised to find that they were left with these steppe knights east of Baitu Pass.

Of course, when I saw the Beiwei Army, the Xuanjia Army, and the Huchuquan of the Ninth Army who were arrayed on both sides, I felt that this feeling of loneliness was not good at all.

Immediately, Hu Chuquan gave full play to the heroic style of the Hun warriors in the face of the superior Han army for hundreds of years - dismounted and surrendered.

Like Zhang Yan, Hu Chuquan also believed that Yuan Shao was finished, and Hebei would be unified by Ma Qiang, and the Huns would either submit to Ma Qiang, or they could only choose death.

As for the option of defeating the princes of the Central Plains, it did not exist in the minds of the Huns before the chaos of the eight kings of the Sima family made the Central Plains empty.

"Zilong and Ziyi have worked hard, sit down... Who are these people? ”

"The general of the defeated army, the right virtuous king of the Huns, Hu Chuquan, meet the general of the expedition to the north!"

Hu Chuquan knelt on the ground with several Hun generals and began to kowtow to Ma Qiang.

"The Huns... Hu Chuquan, when you came to my Yecheng, you could see the Jingguan? Ma Qiang's tone instantly lowered an octave, "I heard that you are burning, killing and looting in Bingzhou, and you are having a very good time."

Don't worry, you go first, or it won't be long before your people in Bingzhou will come and reunite with you. ”

As he spoke, Ma Qiang waved his hand and let Hu Chuquan push down and cut it left and right.

Hu Chuquan hurriedly shouted: "Why is the general too prejudiced against the Xiongnu? The Xiongnu has been attached to the Han Dynasty for a hundred years, and it has long been the eagle dog of the Han family, and please think twice about the general, think twice! ”

Whether it was for himself or for his clan, Hu Chuquan had to make a final effort.

"Oh? Bias? Let him come back! ”

Hu Chuquan and the others were pushed to Ma Qiang's feet again.

"What happened a hundred years ago is too long ago not to mention, since the civil strife of the Han Dynasty, are you Xiongnu guarding the border on the frontier, or are you taking the opportunity to kill my Han people and rob my Han land? Dingxiang, Yunzhong, Wuyuan, Shuofang, Shangjun and other places, are now listening to the Han order? Or is it a matter of order?

That and the state assassin Zhang Yi, Xihe County Shou Xing Ji? Who killed them?

Yuan Shao took you into Jizhou, did you kill and plunder the people?

You say I'm prejudiced against you Huns?

I'm telling you? I look at the Huns just like I look at the Wuhuan, Xianbei, Qiang and even Han people? I only hate those who threaten the safety of my Han and kill and plunder my Han people? It doesn't matter what ethnicity he is.

Now, do you think you're damned? ”

Hu Chuquan's eyes rolled wildly? Cold sweat on your back? Suddenly, he remembered the Wuhuan and Xianbei people he saw in Zhao Yunbu, and hurriedly shouted, "Wuhuan and Xianbei, how different are they from my Huns?" Why did the general only do this to me Huns? And ask the general to spare the Huns? The Xiongnu will sacrifice and merge the counties? A salute to the General! And willing to graze outside the Great Wall for generations, for the Han Jingbian! ”

The price of Huchuquan is directly opened to the lowest, and it can be said that as long as the Huns are allowed to live, they can do anything.

Ma Qiang looked at Hu Chuquan with a beard and round eyes and a wide mouth? I really started to hesitate.

To the west of Bingzhou is the desert, which is not suitable for the Han people, who are mainly agricultural? Not to mention the grasslands in the north, it is also a carnival place for the grassland peoples? The Northern Army is about to start a counteroffensive and enter the state, so how to manage and stabilize the border? Once again, it became Ma Qiang's problem.

Cao Cao in history? In fact, it was to guard the border with the Huns? Cao Cao successively divided the Southern Xiongnu into five departments, selected nobles as commanders, and put the children of these nobles under house arrest in the Central Plains, and then selected Han people as Sima to supervise them, and placed these Xiongnu tribes on the border of Bingzhou, which was maintained until the Sima Yan period of the Jin Dynasty, thus stabilizing the frontier.

But with the rebellion of the eight kings, the Central Plains was empty, and these Xiongnu leaders who held fierce pawns rebelled one after another, and Liu Yuan led the five Xiongnu at that time, and became the king independently in Bingzhou, and even claimed to inherit the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty, opening the troubled era of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms.

And Liu Yuan, the son of Liu Bao and the grandson of Yu Fuluo, it is worth mentioning that another general of the Xiongnu went to Bei, and later established the Dugu tribe, which was the fifth ancestor of Liu Bobo, the founder of Hu Xia, and was later posthumously recognized as the emperor.

But the rebellion of the Huns, in the final analysis, was caused by the internal strife of the Sima family in the Jin Dynasty, even if there were no Huns, there were countless other foreign races.

Killing all the Huns will not solve the problem, but to spare the Huns so easily, Ma Qiang is unwilling.

After all, the Xiongnu are different from Wuhuan, Wuhuan has many tribes that support Ma Qiang and have never rebelled against the Han court, and the Xiongnu, it can be said that everyone is stained with blood, even women, children and the elderly, they have also enjoyed the property stained with the blood and tears of the Han people.

"The Xiongnu have rebelled against the Han court for several years, and the crime is extremely heinous, and it cannot be redeemed unless it is a great achievement!" Ma Qiang looked at Hu Chuquan and said, "Are the Huns willing to atone for their sins?" ”

"The Huns are willing to atone for their sins!"

As long as he can survive, no, as long as he can save the tribe, Hu Chuquan feels that he can do anything.

"I also want to believe you, but it's a pity that you are not alone, it doesn't matter if you say it." Ma Qiang shook his head and said, "Why should I believe you? ”

"The villain can send someone to say that the Hun cavalry next to Yuan Tan, the son of Yuan Shao, will be surrendered! In order to show the heart of the Huns! ”

"No, what I want is - you are the county guard of the Eastern Hun County!"

"East... Huns... County?? Hu Chuquan felt that he knew each of these four words, and he didn't understand the meaning of how to put them together.

"Above Tang Yu, there are Shanrong, Yuyun, and Xun porridge, which live in the north, and move with grass and animal husbandry, which is the Xiongnu." Ma Qiang memorized a paragraph of "Historical Records", and then said, "Since they are all descendants of China, why do you want to divide the Han people and the Xiongnu?" In my opinion, in the future, the Xiongnu can be a place name, but it is not suitable for an ethnic group.

I am going to divide the Xiongnu into three counties, each with a county guard, a county order, just like today's Wuhuan, if you are willing to accept, sign the document in the name of the Xiongnu Right Xian King, I believe in your sincerity.

Otherwise... I think that in the past few years, there have been more than a million unjust souls between heaven and earth, and I am not afraid of another million! ”

Ma Qiang's words, Hu Chuquan naturally understood.

If you are disobedient, just wait for the extermination of the clan!

Ma Qiang could accept to follow the example of the Ming Dynasty outside of China and set up tribes and even kingdoms to reduce the cost of ruling the central dynasty, but within China, there can only be one central dynasty! One voice!

Even... It's a nation!